Stove.



E. C. COLE.

STOVE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY l1. I914.

Patented Sept. 17, 1918.

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ERNEST CHAPIN Come, a citizen. of the United States,and a resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois,have made an Improvement in Stoves, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention is in the class of sheet-metal stoves employed for heatingrooms or apartments. The body of the stove is made in halves, or in twopractically duplicate parts, the same being tapered from the horizontalmiddle upward and downward so that when detached from each other theyare adapted to be nested for storage or transportation.

The invention further includes an improvement in which a castingconceals and protects the screw-bolt fastening by which the meeting endsof the body parts are encircled and held together when the stove is setup for use.

The details of construction, arrangement, and combination of parts areas hereinafter described, and illustrated in the accompanying drawing,in which,

Figure 1 is an end view of the stove, one of the upper corners beingbroken away to show interior form or construction.

Fig. 2 is mainly a side view of the stove, the front portion being cutaway and shown in section.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged horizontal section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

Fig. at is an enlarged vertical section on the line 1- 1 of Fig. 1'.

In Figs. 1 and 2, A and A indicate, respectively, the upper and lowerhalves or practically duplicate portions of the stove body. These partsare struck up by dies from sheet metal of suitable thickness, and theyare tapered from the horizontal center or middle portion upward anddownward, so that they may be conveniently nested. As shown in Figs. 2and 1, the parts A and A are outturned at their meeting edges, thusforming curved flanges a and a.

For the purpose of securing the parts A, A, together, that is to say,for confining and covering the flanges a, and a, I employ a sheet-metalband B which is semi-circular in cross section and made of such widththat it is adapted, as shown in Figs. 2 and 4, to embrace the flanges a,and a. The ends of this band B are provided with laterally projectingmetal pieces constituting parallel flanges b, and a screw-bolt C isinserted through the said flanges, and when the nut is turned up it isobvious that the band B will be drawn tightly around the flanges a,-

a of the stove body, so that they will be pressed together and thus forma tight joint. Exteriorly, the band forms also an ornamental attachmentor portion of the stove as a whole.

In order to conceal and protect the boltfastening C and the flanges b ofthe band B, the casting D is provided with a vertical extension clwhich, as shown in several figures of the drawing, extends upward and isconcaved on its inner side to adapt it to inclose or cover thebolt-fastening and contiguous parts. The casting D may be secured to thebody part A by means of screw-bolts, which permit convenient detachmentwhen it is desired to separate the parts A, A, from each other forthepurpose of nesting them, etc. I thus produce a stove body which isdistinguished by lightness, cheapness, facility of separation of itsmain parts, and is also highly ornamental in appearance.

I have shown in Figs. 1 and 2 the parts A, A, as provided with verticalcorrugations which impart strength and rigidity as well as conduce toornamental appearance.

The upper part A of the stove is provided with a stove-pipe collar a andcover a for the hole through which fuel is introduced.

It will be understood that, in practice, legs will be provided forsupporting the stove in the usual way.

What I claim is The herein described improved stove comprising upper andlower separable duplicate stove-body members, the upper member having acontinuous ledge projecting outwardly therefrom at its lower end, avertical flange extending upwardly from the outer edge of said ledge,the lower stove-body member having a continuous ledge projectingoutwardly from its upper end, and a vertical flange extending downwardlyfrom the outer edge of such ledge, the ledges of the respective membersjuxtaposed against each other with the respective vertical flangesprojecting in opposite directions, an expansible split metal band havinga semi-circular cross section inclosing the ledges with its inner faceengaging the free edges of the 0pcurved extension projecting upwardlyfrom positely projecting flanges, the ends of the said casting andinclosing the split ends of 3.0 split band having outwardly eiitendtingpprthe curved band and its end fastening means. tlons, means engagingsalt en por lons or drawing same together, the inner edges of ERNESTCHAPIN COLE the band engaging the outer face of the Witnesses:

upper and lower members, a draft door cast- E. E. SMITH,

ing secured to the lower member, and a O. E. FRICK.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents. Washington, D. 0.

